Feedback - Screen flashes black #4153

[ZeroAce]

Nvida GTX 260

Vista 32

I would occasionally see the terrain flash black in beta.

I did not notice the problem when I had shadows on low.

Then I turn shadows to high and run around placing infantry with spacebar offline.

Everytime I place them I get flashes of black streak along the screen, almost as though the shadows are freaking out and casting black everywhere for a split second.

I often get the same thing when I kill the infantry dummies. Suggesting some kind of movement of the shadows and ragdoll is doing this.

Only very rarely it would flash back when I was just running around near the infantry dummies.

[hchris]

I can confirm this! Here is my dxdiag:

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System Information

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Time of this report: 5/29/2009, 21:28:58

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506)

System Model: MS-7358

BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG

Processor: Intel® Core2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz

Memory: 3326MB RAM

Page File: 1351MB used, 5522MB available

DirectX Version: DirectX 10

DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode

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Display Devices

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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Manufacturer: NVIDIA

Chip type: GeForce GTX 260

DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC

Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_05E2&SUBSYS_09A619F1&REV_A1

Display Memory: 2290 MB

Dedicated Memory: 883 MB

Shared Memory: 1407 MB

Current Mode: 1280 x 1024 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Monitor: PnP-Monitor (Standard)

Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll

Driver Version: 7.15.0011.7824 (English)

DDI Version: 10

Driver Attributes: Final Retail

Driver Date/Size: 10/7/2008 14:33:00, 5963776 bytes

WHQL Logo'd: Yes

WHQL Date Stamp:

Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-46A2-11CF-D164-AD2901C2CA35}

[fade]

I had the same thing. A black flash in the fps or like a black tare. I turned off post render filter and it went away.

ICore 860

ATI 5850

Win7 64

Edited May 23, 2010 by fade

[GOPHUR]

Looks on my client like just walking through the trooper as I lay them down. Black flash isn't full screen, just where trooper head and shoulders would be.

[GOPHUR]

At 1.16 in this movie you can see similar issue with black boxes:

[ZeroAce]

Those black flashes definitely look like what I've been seeing. I haven't determined what causes them. But it's quite annoying, so I'd probably play with shadows turned down to prevent it.

[ZeroAce]

Some of the textures on the ground or buildings flash black.

Nvidia GTX 260.

Vista 32.

Turning it down to medium seems to fix it.

[gtanner]

Get this to but my shadows are set to low It doesn't seem to happen upon ragdoll processing.

Vista 32

Nvidia 8800GTS (320mb)

[AHWULF]

I see this on the terrain even with no inf nearby. Just one frames worth of black.

[ZeroAce]

I think I am still noticing it on medium shadows, just less common.

[Fredrik1]

I also get these, I thought the buildings caused them because I've only had it happen in towns.

[GOPHUR]

Reported fixed 1.31.2.3.

[hchris]

Reported fixed 1.31.2.3.

Is there a way to replicate this in a trustworthy way?

[GOPHUR]

Not really. I've used the corpses offline to test and found that if you walk over them you can replicate this but I would not deem that scientifioc.

[GOPHUR]

We think this was related to corpses (or most of it was). Fixed some stuff there. Should be ready for retest 1.31.4.255.

[GOPHUR]

last bump...